Parks v. State

The evidence showed, that defendant went to Mrs. Garner’s house with a cow and calf, and offered to sell her the cow for $30. She declined to buy, but offered to swap her cow for his. Her cow gave one and a half gallons of milk a day, and was worth $25. He said his was a three-gallon cow, that she gave three gallons of milk a day; and asked $7 boot. He further said his cow was gentle and only six years old, that he had owned her a year, that the calf was eight weeks old, and that he lived in Payette county. He thereupon drew a small quantity of milk from his cow, stating that the reason she…